Wind power
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Sunday, June 28th, 2009The US Department of the Interior has awarded the first leases for exploration of offshore wind development. The leases to three companies, Deepwater Wind LLC, Babcock and Brown Bluewater Wind LLC, and Fisherman’s Energy of New Jersey LLC, will allow the three companies to build meteorological towers between 6 and 18 miles off the New [...]
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World’s first floating wind turbine installed
Saturday, June 13th, 2009 Hywind floating turbine being towed out to sea
The world’s first floating wind turbine has been installed by StatoilHydro and Siemens off the coast of Karmoy, Norway, and testing of the new turbine is about to begin. The floating turbine, which is anchored to the sea floor about 700 feet below, consists of a steel [...]
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Wind Turbines to be sold in your corner hardware store
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009Earthtronics has just signed a deal with ACE Hardware stores to sell their new 2-kW Honeywell Wind Turbine. The new turbine is sized for individual houses and can be mounted on the roof, where it can generate electricity at wind speeds as low as 2 mph all the way up to 45 mph. [...]
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U.S. giving clearance to offshore wind farms
Saturday, April 25th, 2009The US Interior Department has just finished up new rules that will allow the first offshore wind turbines to be built along the Atlantic coast. These rules have been a long time in the making - alot of effort was put in to this by the Bush Administration, but they weren’t able to finish [...]
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New Texas Gulf Coast wind farm in place
Saturday, April 18th, 2009Iberdrola Renewables has announced that they have completed their development of their new 202 megawatt Peñascal wind farm near the Texas Gulf Coast. They also announced that they have a 15 year contract in place with CPS Energy to provide 76.8 megawatts of electricity from the wind farm to CPS Energy customers. [...]
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The US now #1 in wind power
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009According to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), in 2008, the US became the country with the largest amount of installed wind power capacity, with an increase of 8,500 megawatts of new wind power. Germany was the previous leader. The US had a total installed capacity of 25,300 megawatts at the end of [...]
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Bringing wind turbines to ordinary rooftops
Sunday, February 15th, 2009The New York Times has an interesting article on some of the latest wind turbines available for home use. They specifically mention Cascade International’s Swift Wind Turbine and Home Energy’s Energy Ball. In the article, they mention that you can check out the average wind speed for your locality at the Swift Web [...]
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The latest on the Cape Wind Nantucket Sound project
Sunday, January 25th, 2009It’s been in the works for seven plus years, but in one of the Bush Administration’s last official acts, the Cape Wind offshore wind turbine project was given the go-ahead. The project, consisting of 130 wind turbines, could generate up to 75% of the region’s electricity needs. But there’s been furious behind [...]
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T. Boone Pickens wind plan being delayed
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008The Pickens Plan is being delayed. Due to falling natural gas prices and the tight credit market, T. Boone Pickens is being forced to temporarily delay his huge Texas wind project, known as the Pickens Plan, which he’s promoting to wean the US off of foreign oil by switching over to wind and natural [...]
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Cascade Engineering’s SWIFT wind turbine now available for sale in the U.S.
Monday, October 27th, 2008Cascade Engineering today launched their SWIFT Wind Turbine for sale in the US and Canada. The SWIFT, which was originally designed by Scotland based Renewable Devices, is a unique small five bladed turbine that is designed to reduce noise. The five blades are surrounded by a “diffuser ring” that lowers the sound produced by [...]
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